転んでも、大丈夫: ぼくが義足を作る理由ポプラ社ノンフィクション

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by 臼井二美男

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This is a nonfiction book about the work of Fumio Usui, a leading sports prosthetist who has been involved with many athletes as a prosthetist and continues to support them both mentally and physically. The impact of his childhood contact with prosthetic legs, his career that sprung from a chance encounter, and the new ideas for prosthetic legs that were born there. The book introduces the many dramas that were born in the process of making each pair of prosthetics by hand and with communication...

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188

ISBN:

4591150720

ISBN13:

9784591150726

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Mizukisays

March 8, 2024

I almost put this book down in the introduction because it came off as so ableist. It presents prosthetics as the thing that allows amputees to return to 'normal' lives because it lets them walk 'normally', presents the amputees themselves as superhumans who to a one are all trying really hard to reach their dreams and never giving up, and explicitly invites the (clearly imagined to not be disabled) reader to use them as inspiration fuel. Ick. Fortunately, the rest of the book drops most of this

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